Offensive perspective
From the offensive side, we will look at various keylogging methods, essentially ways to get more intel from the defender or other users of the same machine. One of the major themes of this chapter will be keylogging or getting secret key material to access new hosts. By leveraging the principle of humanity, attackers can exploit the users of systems to get their keys or passwords, move to new hosts, and preferably administrative applications.
Another goal as an attacker, once uncovered by the defense, is to let the defense think they've won but maintain your access through stolen credentials or rootkits that we've explored in previous chapters. In the last chapter, we saw ways to blind the defender's tools. Later, in the Defensive perspective section of this chapter, we will see several techniques for blocking a user from accessing a machine completely, which are viable techniques the offense can use for blocking defenders as well. In...
